Eh, more introspection.

[farla]

I was just looking over my last bunch of one-shots and realized that for a lot of them, some or all of the reviewers totally missed the point. Okay, I can actually see the (stupid) reasoning for Hatred, that's just militant shipping in action. But there's also Knowledge, where even the couple people who figured out the pokemon was dead either thought the girl had made a mistake (totally not the point) or tried her best, or something; Strife of Mere Immortals, where I don't think anyone got it and about half of them seemed to think one of the two was good, plus they seemed to miss the bit about twins, as in, same-species; and Absolution, where people actually argued against the point as if I believed it, and I don't know if anyone got that the absol was talking about a causal, karmic sense of suffering, which was why there was no point in saying sorry. And then there's the whole thing with The One Who Moved with most of the reviewers thinking it's a metapod for some reason, despite the poochyena.

So...are my stories too hard to follow? Are my reviewers just not paying attention? Do I really need ending author notes explaining the situation?

Comments

[negrek.livejournal.com]

I think I understand them pretty well. A lot of people just don't seem to get things, though. Like that person who reviewed "The Last Word" with "THAT BETTER NOT HAVE BEEN ASH!" In general, people seemed convinced that the person in the story was supposed to represent someone in particular, when in fact the whole idea was that it could have been anybody.

[(Anonymous)]

Well, reading this, I see my review of Knowledge got it ridiculously wrong. ('Girl made a mistake.') Heh. It wasn't my first interpretation of it, though, just the one I settled on. I liked the way there were other ways of looking at it - I did feel I was going for a bit of a risky interpretation (the risk being that of getting it wrong and feeling rather stupid), but it wasn't exactly worrying. It was fun to take a guess. I say this in the hope that it might help you feel a little better. People can miss the point after having given the way you might have meant it a bit of thought. (I guess that's not much comfort unless they at least pass by the point somewhere along the way, though...)

[ember-reignited.livejournal.com]

I didn't have any trouble at all with "Knowledge" or "Hatred."

I still haven't entirely figured out "Strife," but it was clear enough to me that we're not talking Zoroastrianism here – or Taosim, for that matter. But if you aren't surprised at the reaction you got for "Hatred," you really shouldn't be surprised at the reaction you got for this one. AAML is like a religious doctrine. Dualism actually is one.

"Absolution" went right over my head and, for once, your explainations didn't help. Maybe I just have no frame of referrence? It's hard for me to fully comprehend abstract ideas when I don't have something more solid I can base them on.

For "The One Who Moved," it doesn't really matter whether people think it's a metapod or a silcoon. The essential point is the same. I can see how that would still be somewhat frustrating, though.